My daughter found religion

[chansen]

Last night, my daughter found religion. It was all rather sudden.

I was doing the census. Last minute, of course. I got the long form. Yay.

I got to the religion question. I started clicking "No religion" but then thought I would ask my daughter if she had anything to disclose after a school year away. She did not. I asked if I should enter "Pastafarian" for her. She asked me what that was.

I have been a negligent father. I never told my daughter about the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

So I asked her to google "church of the flying spaghetti monster". She thinks I'm making it up. She starts typing, then she's like, "WHY IS THAT THE SECOND SUGGESTION WHEN I TYPE, "CHURCH OF?!?!?!?"

I have sent my daughter down a rabbit hole.

"These people are brilliant!," she exclaims as she reads more and more, half laughing and half incredulous. "There's a beer volcano!"

As she goes on, she's more impressed than amused. She appreciates their arguments for why Pastafarianism is as deserving of special accommodations and government recognition as any other religion (preferably, not at all).

Overall, she feels it's something she could join. But Satanists also have a certain appeal. Once you come to faith, choosing a specific church can be daunting.

 

[Luce NDs]

There was even a series of Italian based westerns ... one where a chap was cut out of a hanging tree ... suspended participle?

Laughter is ungovernable ... some pious sorts say the devil is responsible for giggles in severe (radical) situations ... unreal ... right?

Once into it everything reciprocates ... vast dissonance (Eris)? Be cautious about setting that Lucy ... sometimes LucEH ... after dark ... the holy cowed!

 

[Mendalla]

Satanism has black metal. What do Pastafarians have to offer musically?

 

[chansen]

I don't even know. It was a fun joke for a while back when creationists were trying to gain traction in schools. I guess it may be more popular again now that Trump's religious handlers are trying again.

But I can't pretend to know all the tenets or songs, assuming they have songs. Probably pirate songs? That's my best guess.

 

[Luce NDs]

I don't even know. It was a fun joke for a while back when creationists were trying to gain traction in schools. I guess it may be more popular again now that Trump's religious handlers are trying again.

But I can't pretend to know all the tenets or songs, assuming they have songs. Probably pirate songs? That's my best guess.

Possibly black and slippery ... like shadow characters ... not that catchy!

 

[Delightful Life]

Satanism has black metal. What do Pastafarians have to offer musically?

 

[ninj]

Overall, she feels it's something she could join. But Satanists also have a certain appeal. Once you come to faith, choosing a specific church can be daunting.

Satanists are unfairly much-maligned. The ones I've heard of are doing incredible work for youth in the US. Some of the loveliest people you could ever meet. Hail Baphomet.
The Satanic Temple - Official Website The Satanic Temple - Official Website

 

[BetteTheRed]

Should your daughter be interested, Satanism and Luciferianism are quite different beliefs.

 

[chansen]

The attraction is they are both parody religions.

 

[Mendalla]

The attraction is they are both parody religions.

One of my perpetual struggles with black metal is that it sometimes takes itself so seriously with the whole Satanic parody of Christianity thing that it descends into self-parody. Nothing wrong with the music, though it can get monotonous in some bands, it's more that the lyrics get kind of overwrought and cliched. Greek black metal, which I was listening to yesterday, seems to dodge that bullet better than the Nordic school, though there are some Nordic black metal bands I like, too. The Greeks' music tends to be livelier and less ponderous, too. Poster child band for Greek black metal is Rotting Christ so they sure don't shy away from the blasphemy, just deliver it better musically.

(There's also some American black metal which is different again. Oddly, I don't know any Canadian black metal bands. Lots of Canadian death metal, but no black metal.)

 

[Luce NDs]

Nordic Black Metal is sometimes cooler and more brittle ... cautious with the shards ...

 

[ninj]

The satanic temple came into being to provide legal counter-activism as a registered "religion". Yes, a parody (catchy, don't you think?) It then can work to advocate for children's rights to be free of religion in states where fundamentalist Christian groups run "after school clubs" on public school property....among other forms of advocacy. They are actually a group of mainly extremely principaled professionals who hold science-based progressive values, and are largely atheist and agnostic.